sympathizer

1. 1.

   a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

   Synonymssympathisercomforter

   Broadercommunicator

   NarrowerJob's comforter
2. 2.

   someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

   Synonymssympathiserwell-wisher

   Broadersupporter

   Narrowerbleeding heartfellow traveler

Other forms of sympathizer

plural

sympathizers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sympathizer

What does sympathizer mean?

sympathizer means "a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sympathizer?

sympathizer has 4 syllables: sym-pa-thi-zer. The stress falls on "sym". In IPA it is /ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪzɚ/.

What is another word for sympathizer?

Close synonyms include sympathiser, comforter, sympathiser, well-wisher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sympathizer a common word?

sympathizer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.